LOWESTOFT AIR SHOW 2008 *2 EXCEL AVIATION "THE BLADES"*

Once again in my opinion one of the best displays (possibly even the best!) of the Lowestoft Air Show 2008 was 2 Excel Aviation's "The Blades" in their Extra 300 LP aircraft. Formed only three years ago, The Blades are now internationally recognised as a world-class aerobatic display team! All the aircraft in The Blades are flown by former Red Arrows pilots...this might explain why they're so good! The only full-time civilian aerobatic team in the UK, The Blades perform their synchronised gyroscopic manoeuvres and precision formation aerobatics all over the world! What still impresses me is the way they just basically let the plane drop in the sky and then somehow gain control of it!! I have uploaded just over six minutes of footage of them doing their thing so you can see what I mean when I say they were possibly the best in the '08 show!

Visit The Blades official page at http://www.2excelaviation.com/pages/home.php where you will find more info and can even book a flight on board one of 2 Excels Extra 300!!

*Filmed 24th July 2008*

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Lowestoft
• air
• festival
• airshow
• show
• 2008
• stunt
• flying
• aircraft
• aeroplane
• aerobatics
• Excel
• Aviation
• Blades
• Extra
• 300
• 08

[RAFWingsAppeal]

We are currently running a competition to win a flight with The Blades. To enter text ‘Wings’ to 70007. The Blades will fly the winner in full formation performing manoeuvres including loops, barrel-rolls an aileron roll and a stall turn.

Text cost £1 plus one message at your standard network rate. An average of 88p per entry will go towards the Wings Appeal.

For full terms and conditions visit rafa.org.uk

[mhdplumart]

maybe you need to go out from your island to see another teams, and surely change your opinion...sure they are good, but not the best in the world...

check "marche verte"

notice the rope between the planes...

[ruskinruss]

these guys are terrifyingly awsome..The wife and I saw them last Friday at Eastbourne..Just stunning..

[lethalman3000]

im not being raciest but its true in it?

[lethalman3000]

we also have the best engineers in the world. see the snowbirds have crashes but never the red arrows.

[lethalman3000]

making them the best in the world we have the best safety in the world i notice air planes from the east are always crashing and are faulty .thares no way if concerned ever took of from the uk it wound of never crashed

[lethalman3000]

yeah the best pro propeller team in the world and we have the best pilots in the world like the red arrows most of the blade pilots are ex red arrow pilots

[JoaoAires1984]

i saw them in farnborought 2008, and believe me, they were side by side with combat jets displays.congrats

[eddiethesecond]

you know my dad is the director of the blades, its good to see people uploading vids of the blades